Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Candice's Blog

Why not wait for one more minute?

One thing I cannot understand, and it was so different from China after coming here, is that the our American classmates sometimes are preparing to leave class very urgently, sometimes there are still several minutes left....

Different Way of Greeting

Today is Saturday and nothing special happened last week. This evening I talked with my roommate Melissa and she said it’s a good idea if you can write something about China, maybe something different, something special… I...

our field trip

Last week, we visited EFCO Company in Des Moines. It is a good access to know more about our civil engineering professional tools which are widely used in field sites. The other purposes are to allow us to attend some practice...

Colorful Fall, Colorful Week

Today, I opened my Chinese ancient poems book and there was a very familiar poem came into my eyes, the general meaning of the poem is: it was believed that fall is a season which can not give people a kind of warm feeling, but I...

CE303 exam

Just now, I finished my CE 303 exam and it was really a challenge for me to write so such within no more than 50 minutes. The exam style is also new to me. Our professor gave us the exam problem and allowed us to prepare. CE 303...

Hallooween

Halloween is coming soon. It is the last day of October.  Yesterday our classmate Eric and his wife invited us to visit them and carve pumpkins; we spent a really good night at their new house. About seven o’clock, we...

An engineer's speech

Last week, a lady PE in the Iowa DOT was invited by our CE104 professors to give us a lecture about our civil engineering field. She studied at ISU and after graduating she changed a lot of jobs because she said she can contact...

This Saturday

Today is Saturday, I got up early and hurriedly to go to school, because last weekdays, I was always keeping nervous and hurry to do tons of assignments and attend exams. Finally, I was too tired to do anything, so, I was...

exam finished

Up to yesterday, I finished five subjects’ middle semester exam. I am so tired at last but I have got a lot of useful experiences in this period although I did not do well as some of my classmates. I remembered that day I was...